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A project in Singida, Tanzania, is working with smallholder producers to stimulate market-based agriculture. To increase the quantity and quality of products available for the market and address poverty in the region, the project focuses, in particular, on overcoming the barriers smallholders fac...

The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, established in 2011, is a public-private partnership that aims to promote sustainable agricultural growth in the region, and engage smallholder farmers in relevant policy dialogues.

In Masalala, north-western Tanzania, the creation of an innovation platform has helped to improve smallholder paddy production and reduce inefficiencies in access to inputs and credit. Other value chains actors, including millers and buyers, have also benefitted from an improved supply of better ...

A project in Rwanda's Kirehe district has targeted smallholder farmer and their cooperatives to help them leverage private investment and funds from financial institutions, and with this help them upgrade and diversify their activities. Finance for participants across seven agricultural value cha...

In Uganda, the national farmers federation has partnered with USAID to counteract the main cause of low productivity in the country - counterfeit agricultural products. The programme train farmers and other agricultural stakeholders on the identification of counterfeit chemicals, fertilisers and ...

The Producer Empowerment and Market Linkages (PEML) project is improving the livelihoods of local maize producer groups in Tanzania by strengthening their organisational and operational capacities. The project is also facilitating farmer group access to market information systems and financial se...

To increase the capacity of the Kenya Livestock Producers Association (KLPA), a team of national and international organisations mentored the organisation. As a result of the capacity building programme, the skills and knowledge of KLPA staff have grown, and the organisation's policies have been ...

The national network of small-scale farmers groups in Tanzania, MVIWATA, has partnered with researchers from Germany and Tanzania to promote machine maize shelling in groups, in two villages in the country. Group management training has been provided to the groups in order to help them run their ...

The "Enhancement of Farmer Entrepreneurship for Development" programme is facilitating smallholder farmer capacity building and stakeholder engagement in Kenyan counties, to enable farmer groups to become more business oriented. The programme has also analysed the priority agricultural product va...